Improvement in insoles for boots and shoes



J. BHACKETT.

ins'qles'for Boots and Shoes.

950,128,583. i Patentedlu|y2,1872.

JOSEPH BRACKETT, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN INSOLES FOR BOOTS AND SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 128,583, dated July 2, 1872 antedated J une 15, 1872.

Lynn, of the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in False Inner Soles for Boots or Shoes; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawing, of which- Figure lis a top View, Fig. 2 a bottom view, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal section, of one of my said improved insoles.

It is for insertion Within a shoe or boot and to rest on the top of the insole thereof, in order 'to protect the foot of the wearer from cold and dampness.

Such kind of improved false inner sole is composed of a thinV iiexile metallic plate or base, A, and a facing, B, of cloth woven or felted, or its equivalent.` The facing is laid upon the baseplate and extended beyond its edge all around a short distance, as shown at a, and is connected to the base-plate by punching at sundry places through the two and upsetting upon the facing the bur or .burs raised from the baseplate by the punch, and thereby substantially riveting or fastening them together. In the drawing the points or places of xation of the baseplate and cloth facing are shown at I. The object of arranging the facing so as to extend beyond the edge of the base-plate, al1 around such, is to prevent such edge from coming intol contact with and Wearing or cutting the upper of a shoe or boot in which such false inner sole may be worn.

By the above mode of making a false inner sole it can be produced so thin as to be easily worn with comfort in any shoe, particularly in ladies7 boots or shoes, it being a great security to health, as well as a comfort to a party who may make use of it.

I claim- The new or improved manufacture of false inner sole, made substantially as described, viz., of the metallic base-plate and the felt or cloth facing, or its equivalent, connected and arranged essentially as set forth.

JOSEPH BRAGKETT.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, J. It. SNOW. 

